Kevin McCarthy

I've been working on restoring a vintage Toshiba Satellite 200CDS and wanted to install a zip / unzip utility. I'm a big fan of modern software for vintage machines, so I looked to see if there are any alternatives to PKZIP. Turns out that there is a

I keep finding myself facing this problem where I want to run an external process in Python. There are a few ways to do it in the standard library: * subprocess * os.system * os.spawn * os.popen * popen2 * commands All of these are deprecated except for subprocess. As an example, this

I've been learning React and ran into a problem that's tricky to Google. When my component mounts, I fire off a list of XHR calls to an external service. When each one returns, I want to update the state. Here was my first attempt: class SomeComponent

Pytest fixtures are pretty amazing, and I end up writing quick and dirty fixtures all the time for my tests. I just wrote a quickie pytest fixture for integration testing flask apps. Here's how you use it: import requests def test_request_tasks(server): assert requests.get(server

I've been reading through the second edition of They Joy Of Clojure for the ClojureHNL meetup group and wanted to see how I could improve my Vim setup for editing Clojure code. This is mostly a note to myself but I thought someone else might find it interesting.

Graphite and I have a long history. It all started when reading the amazing blog post introducing StatsD by Etsy's engineering team. If you haven't read it yet, I recommend it as it is a nice illustration of why you would want to install Graphite. If

At Real Geeks we have lots of internal dashboards: Graphite, Logstash, Munin, and some other internal tools with status pages. Obviously, I didn't want these open to the public. I was using one of two different ways of restricting access, and both of them didn't work